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Tales from the Town of Widows

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Binding: Paperback
List Price: $16.50
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ISBN: 9780061140396
Publisher: Harper Collins
Language: English
Page Count: 342
Publication Date: 1/1/2008
Size: 8.53" l x 5.65" w x 0.99"
Series: N/A

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Fiction General
One Sunday morning, a band of guerrillas comes to Mariquita and takes all the men away, leaving behind only the priest and a fair-skinned boy disguised as a little girl. Without men, the small Colombian mountain village becomes a sinking wasteland filled with women resigned to food shortages, littered streets, and mourning. But Rosalba viuda de Patiño, wife of the former police sergeant, envisions a different future for the town of widows. Declaring herself magistrate, she promises to instill law and order, and restore the failing economy and infrastructure - and proceeds to create a utopia far greater than any revolutionary's imagined ideal society. Deft, rich, and darkly humorous, Tales from the Town of Widows marks the arrival of an unforgettable new literary talent.

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